Season’s greetings, readers!!

It been two weeks since my last newsletter (where I suggested various journalism sites that you could support instead of Delaware Currents).

And my life since has been a rollercoaster on top of a merry-go-round.

But there’s good news. In one of my recent newsletters I wrote about my mother-in-law’s decision to enter hospice due to complications arising from a broken femur.

A-mazing news: She’s not in hospice anymore and is embracing rehab with a view to returning home.

YIKES. We have whiplash and are cautiously joyful. (Can you be cautiously joyful?)

Anyway, this all happened just as I was winding down Delaware Currents.

It’s been a lot!

Delaware Currents, the 501(c)(3) that many of you have supported IS winding down, at least financially. (Make sure you stop those payments!)

But the website will be up for at least the next year since I believe that it’s a useful archive of stories about the Delaware.

There is likely to be at least one more story for Delaware Currents: I am setting up an interview with the new (as of October) commissioner of the Philadelphia Water Department, Ben Jewell.

One of the big questions: What does he make of the newly announced dissolved oxygen rules for the lower Delaware recently announced by the Environmental Protection Agency?

Stay tuned.

I am also embarking on the first stage of what I’ll be doing after Delaware Currents. I have a new website, www.megunlimited.com.

I actually developed the site ages ago, and it’s already populated with essays, journalism and, ahem, poetry, which was a passion of mine even before journalism.

So there is work on the site from a decade ago, and soon, more recent work will be added.

I will also still be sending out my newsletter. For at least a month or so, I’ll be sending it out both from meg@delawarecurrents.org and from meg@megunlimited.com.

There are some hardy souls (bless you!) who will be joining me for this new journey as I, once again, discover what I want to be when I grow up. Not a clue at the moment!

But for those folks who only want stories like the ones I used to feature in Delaware Currents, you can opt out of the new experiment by entering your email below.

It’s a clever back-end toggle that my expert web hosts at Raney Day Design have created. Very clever!

One more thing to ensure you get my new “adventure” emails; If you set up the new email (meg@megunlimited.com) in your contacts folder, the newsletters won’t end up homeless in spam.

OK. Great stories to celebrate…

My inexhaustible spouse and managing editor, Chris Mele, gave us: Delaware Riverkeeper sues DRBC over Gibbstown LNG port permit extension

Amazing, isn’t it, how some stories seem to cycle around and around? As Chris writes: “The legal challenge is the latest turn in a proposal with many moving parts that has been in the works for at least six years and shows no signs of a quick resolution.”

Chris also wrote: ‘Our community says no’: Speakers decry LNG plant proposal on the Delaware River in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Speaking about stories that cycle, there has been a faction in the Pennsylvania Legislature that seems intent, as the story says, “with siting a liquefied natural gas plant in Chester, Pa., or other nearby densely populated communities in southeastern Delaware County.”

The community is having none of it. Good for them!!

Communities in the Delaware are learning they have power: to fight warehouses, to fight dirty energy in their backyards, and the newest threat: power-hungry AI support installations. 

There are going to be several newsletters over the next two weeks. I’m jamming them in to keep you informed. If you’re celebrating (have fun) and not opening email (good for you), all the newsletters will be on the Delaware Currents site under the heading “Newsletter Archive.”

On this, the last night of Hanukkah, I wish our Jewish friends a happy and light-filled holiday, and for Christmas celebrants: Merry Christmas!!

Thanks for reading,

Meg